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The scope and scale of this destruction is almost beyond belief, these tornadoes devoured everything in their path. – Joe Biden	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The rich devour the poor, and the devil devours the rich and so both are devoured. – Proverb	added by anonymous 3 years ago
I would love to see the day when my reggae will finally free america and africa, but the way america is heading I have to seriously doubt that will happen anytime soon. racism, bigotry and hate has devoured america to great depths, but I must keep on trying. – RAS CARDO REGGAE	added by RAS CARDO REGGAE 4 years ago
The rich devour the poor and the devil devours the rich and so both are devoured. – Proverb	added by anonymous 5 years ago
This confessional system is not only corrupt. It is built on vested interests by all the sects (whose leaders) keep their grip on their people... The politicians have devoured Lebanon. – Kamal Hamdan	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I know nothing about the actual elephant other than its love for selfies, its personality was very playful and it clearly had a craving for bananas because it devoured them. – Christian LeBlanc	Found on CNN 8 years ago
One watches them on the seashore, all the people, and there is something pathetic, almost wistful in them, as if they wished their lives did not add up to this scaly nullity of possession, but as if they could not escape. It is a dragon that has devoured us all: these obscene, scaly houses, this insatiable struggle and desire to possess, to possess always and in spite of everything, this need to be an owner, lest one be owned. It is too hideous and nauseating. Owners and owned, they are like the two sides of a ghastly disease. One feels a sort of madness come over one, as if the world had become hell. But it is only superimposed: it is only a temporary disease. It can be cleaned away. – D. H. Lawrence	added by anonymous 13 years ago
'Tis an old saying, the Devil lurks behind the cross. All is not gold that glitters. From the tail of the plough, Bamba was made King of Spain and from his silks and riches was Rodrigo cast to be devoured by the snakes. – Miguel de Cervantes	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless. – Bette Davis	added by anonymous 14 years ago

The scope and scale of this destruction is almost beyond belief, these tornadoes devoured everything in their path.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The rich devour the poor, and the devil devours the rich and so both are devoured.

– Proverb

added by anonymous
3 years ago

I would love to see the day when my reggae will finally free america and africa, but the way america is heading I have to seriously doubt that will happen anytime soon. racism, bigotry and hate has devoured america to great depths, but I must keep on trying.

– RAS CARDO REGGAE

added by RAS CARDO REGGAE
4 years ago

The rich devour the poor and the devil devours the rich and so both are devoured.

– Proverb

added by anonymous
5 years ago

This confessional system is not only corrupt. It is built on vested interests by all the sects (whose leaders) keep their grip on their people... The politicians have devoured Lebanon.

– Kamal Hamdan

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I know nothing about the actual elephant other than its love for selfies, its personality was very playful and it clearly had a craving for bananas because it devoured them.

– Christian LeBlanc

Found on CNN
8 years ago

One watches them on the seashore, all the people, and there is something pathetic, almost wistful in them, as if they wished their lives did not add up to this scaly nullity of possession, but as if they could not escape. It is a dragon that has devoured us all: these obscene, scaly houses, this insatiable struggle and desire to possess, to possess always and in spite of everything, this need to be an owner, lest one be owned. It is too hideous and nauseating. Owners and owned, they are like the two sides of a ghastly disease. One feels a sort of madness come over one, as if the world had become hell. But it is only superimposed: it is only a temporary disease. It can be cleaned away.

– D. H. Lawrence

added by anonymous
13 years ago

'Tis an old saying, the Devil lurks behind the cross. All is not gold that glitters. From the tail of the plough, Bamba was made King of Spain and from his silks and riches was Rodrigo cast to be devoured by the snakes.

– Miguel de Cervantes

added by anonymous
14 years ago

I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.

– Bette Davis

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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